In a tweet sent out from his account on Monday, 9 September, jailed Congress leader P Chidambaram said that he has no answer as to why only he was arrested in the INX Media case and not the officers who recommended him to grant Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to the group.
Then, in a following tweet, he added, “No officer has done anything wrong. I do not want anyone to be arrested.”
The former finance minister is currently in the Tihar jail in connection with the INX media case.
The first tweet clarifies that Chidambaram has asked his family to tweet on his behalf.
“People have asked me 'If the dozen officers who processed and recommended the case to you have not been arrested, why have you been arrested? Only because you have put the last signature?' I have no answer,” says the tweet.
A Delhi court, on 5 September, had sent Chidambaram to judicial custody till 19 September and he has been lodged in Jail No 7 in Tihar since.
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